Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...steam: he said he had come to New York "without an escort" and quipped that Tom Dewey was out in California "giving Dick Nixon some last-minute advice on strategy." "You all know the elephants in the circus--little imagination and long memory--how each hangs on to the tail of the one in front. Well, in 1952 and 1956, Dick Nixon hung on to that tail, but this year he's running alone." Kennedy listed, selectively, some 20th century Republican candidates ("just listen to those names") and said that the Republican party has been "the enemy of progress since...
They further ask: Growth for what? For more schools, yes; for reducing unemployment, yes; but for more of all the consumer goods that are epitomized by the catch-phrase "tail-fins," emphatically no. As John Kenneth Galbraith wrote in The Liberal Hour, "There is no assurance merely from expanding output per se that the benefit will accrue to those at the bottom of the pyramid who need the goods the most." Kennedy's call for growth for growth's sake, or merely to out produce the Russians, is, for some, another grave weakness in his campaign...
...returning hero, even if no one in the U.N. had. Western leaders, crowed Pravda, wanted to make the U.N. "the world's quietest waters," but they "wriggled as the head of the Soviet delegation, brushing aside all the subtleties of protocol, put his foot on their tail...
...beetles do it, the scientists set to work building an instrument on the same principle to measure the ground speed of airplanes. It didn't need all of the compound eye, only two facets of it simulated by photocells watching the ground from the nose and tail of the plane...
...Bluster, the puppet heavy (the children in the audience always booed and hissed); Dilly-Dally, the sad-sack tot; Flubadub, the curious crossbreed with a duck's head, spaniel's ears, giraffe's neck, dachshund's body, seal's flippers, pig's tail and the cat's whiskers...